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Months preceding the O'Lympics, (not allowed to use the correct spelling), 5Live and BBC Sport droned on and on about the football tournament as if it had a similar stature to the Euros and World Cup. In particular, they criticised with vitriol the Scottish, Welsh and Irish FAs for refusing to co-operate, they criticised the FA for not allowing Pierce to pick English players who were at the Euros, (other than Buttland), and they criticised Premier League managers for obstructing the availability of some players, for example, Jack Rodwell and Gareth Bale.

However, it is startlingly clear that BBC Sport ascribes no value to the football tournament: Almost all of the games are hidden away on obscure non-Freeview channels, even the British games are relegated to BBC 3; there is virtually no radio commentary on games not involving a British team; the match pundits are snug in the O'Lympic Park rather than at the ground, and, most disturbingly, the presenter is off-the-assembly-line, charmless, ignorant Jake Humprey.

We've got the world cup for fuck's sake.
Get rid of football and replace it with skateboarding or tumbling.
Seriously, why the fuck isn't tumbling an olympic sport yet?
JUST FUCKING LOOK AT IT.
http://youtu.be/R1pFHpg6ncU

if the weren't a bajillion other sports simultaneously going on which are equally deserving of our attention. 'Non Freeview Channels' they're all on the internet FFS! I'd HATE it if the BBC put all their focus exclusively on the football, or even the majority of it, that's not what the Olympics is about!

Why don't we all have a go at every little thing the BBC doesn't get 100% perfect for the Olympics (see also: men's cycle road race), and make sure not to praise the 99.9% of stuff they're doing amazingly?

I've only got Freeview too, but there are highlights packages and you can watch all the stuff online, which is presumably at your disposal seeing as you made that original post.

Making a big song and dance everytime there's the slightest perceived misdemeanour is what Sky does - and look what damage they managed to inflict on the BBC before politicians finally found circumstances that gave them the courage to stop kissing Murdoch's backside (frozen license fee leading to reduction in sport coverage/ cancellation of popular dramas and so on). And at any rate, people who want absolutely every event on their TV need Sky (or Virgin Media) to get it now, so this current situation is probably helping them out if anything. Freeview doesn't have the bandwidth to put all this out but they've still given us an extra SD and an extra HD channel for the duration.